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Writing Skills

Writing Skills

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Young learners need support when creating written texts. This set of questions supports students' first attempts to create written texts by providing an easy and familiar topic of writing. The way ...
4 Views 15,376 Elem
Storytelling:

Storytelling: "Monkey Puzzle" Animals

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This worksheet contains a story and a set of pictures that can be used in order to teach or revise the names of certain animals and also the parts of their bodies. There are also two lesson plans ...
14 Views 14,348 ElemPre-Int
How to Write a Story

How to Write a Story

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It contains tips to write a perfect story. It has ideas to write a story and can be used with students who are learning to write short story. It is a power point ellaborated with pictures and the ...
10 Views 38,880 Elem
Short Quiz

Short Quiz

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This is a short quiz for an ESL English course I gave this June in Summer school. This worksheet contains types of sentences: declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory. It also has a ...
8 Views 13,104 BegElemPre-IntInt
Poem Worksheet: Serious Luv by Benjamin Zephaniah

Poem Worksheet: Serious Luv by Benjamin Zephaniah

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Super interesting poem by Benjamin Zephaniah to work with school situations, memories y past habits. It's also an opportunity to work with authentic material and explore different spellings of the ...
12 Views 13,706 IntAdv
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Postcards from Somewhere

Postcards from Somewhere

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This is a Mad Lib-like activity I created where students must make a list of verbs, nouns, adjectives, and other words, that they then plug into a template of a postcard from a vacation. Hilarity ...
26 Views 47,105 Int
Musical Writing Prompt

Musical Writing Prompt

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Hi all, this a really nice activity I use to motivate my students to write an original and interesting story using musical ideas. All you need is pick four different musical pieces. You might want ...
8 Views 13,856 BegElemPre-IntIntAdv
Writing About Tom: Basic Writing Prompt

Writing About Tom: Basic Writing Prompt

This worksheet is for begginers. it contains easy vocabulary and structures such as he is wearing... or he is .......(action). Using this worksheet you can teach children how to write a very short ...
8 Views 14,685 Beg
Adjectives Writing Prompts for Age 9+

Adjectives Writing Prompts for Age 9+

This worksheet scaffolds writing for students who have learned some adjectives of description. They are given ideas for a person/character to describe and some adjectives to use, or the opportunit ...
14 Views 14,041 Elem
Webquest On Advertising

Webquest On Advertising

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This is a webquest on advertising which will guide your students through the process of designing a webquest. In this worksheet your students will read about propaganda strategies and techniques. ...
7 Views 15,904 IntAdv
ANZAC at WWI: How It All Began

ANZAC at WWI: How It All Began

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This worksheet is an introductory task on creative thinking and writing in relation to the initial events that sparked the First World War. Teachers who will use this worksheet will have to be fa ...
6 Views 6,302 Pre-IntIntAdv
Let's Talk: Writing/Speaking Prompt

Let's Talk: Writing/Speaking Prompt

Let’s Talk 1 Practises verb tenses: Present Continuous, Past Simple, Future Simple This worksheet can be used for conversation practise and preparation for oral exams. My adult students fi ...
35 Views 25,240 Pre-Int
Happiness

Happiness

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The handout includes several pictures connected with happiness. It can be useful while telling about happy moments in people's lives. Excellent for speaking in classroom as well as during individ ...
16 Views 17,066 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Mr. Bean Activity

Mr. Bean Activity

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This is a worksheet I prepared to my teens students who were studying simple present and daily routines, adverbs of frequency and free time activities. Nice one to practice grammar, they have to w ...
13 Views 20,540 Elem
Writing A Body Paragraph In A Giving Reason Composition

Writing A Body Paragraph In A Giving Reason Composition

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Students need to find three reasons of why nuclear energy is dangerous for world. Their sentences should be related to the thesis statement of the introduction paragraph. I have supplied the signa ...
13 Views 16,361 Pre-IntIntAdv
Dreams and Nightmares

Dreams and Nightmares

This is a mixed skills worksheet that you can make use of according to your focus. There are reading, speaking, writing, and pronunciation activities. All the activities are designed according to ...
24 Views 47,378 ElemPre-IntInt
Make Your Own Invention [TEMPLATE]

Make Your Own Invention [TEMPLATE]

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A simply designed page for you students to create their own inventions. It includes a space for drawing, and is good for language focus on question words "Why?" and "What?" It works well for any s ...
9 Views 30,073 ElemPre-Int
IELTS/TOEFL Speaking - Family

IELTS/TOEFL Speaking - Family

Single page giving subject formulaic language learners could use in speaking exams/everyday English (a bit formal tho) as well as a word cloud highlighting some key topic vocab with synonyms. IELT ...
40 Views 74,986 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Write A Fake News Story [CREATIVE WRITING PROMPT]

Write A Fake News Story [CREATIVE WRITING PROMPT]

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Creative writing prompt: Write a fake news story with the headline 'Man Eats 20 Light Bulbs, And Asks for More'.
21 Views 33,629 All
The Weirdest Dream You've Had [CREATIVE WRITING PROMPT]

The Weirdest Dream You've Had [CREATIVE WRITING PROMPT]

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Creative writing prompt: Think of the most recent, weirdest dream you've had. Make that dream into a story.
5 Views 19,293 All
Monsters Under Your Bed [CREATIVE WRITING PROMPT]

Monsters Under Your Bed [CREATIVE WRITING PROMPT]

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Creative writing prompt: Were you afraid of monsters under your bed when you were younger? If so, what did you imagine?
5 Views 13,632 All
Where Do You See Yourself In 10 Years? [CREATIVE WRITING PROMPT]

Where Do You See Yourself In 10 Years? [CREATIVE WRITING PROMPT]

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Creative writing prompt: Where do you see yourself in 10 years (think college, job, city)? How about 50?
6 Views 15,239 All
An Elephant As A Pet? [CREATIVE WRITING PROMPT]

An Elephant As A Pet? [CREATIVE WRITING PROMPT]

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Creative writing prompt: What would you do if you had an elephant as a pet? What about an alligator?
5 Views 8,632 All
What Is Your Favorite Smell And Why? [CREATIVE WRITING PROMPT]

What Is Your Favorite Smell And Why? [CREATIVE WRITING PROMPT]

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Creative writing prompt: What is your favorite smell and why? What memories does it bring up?
4 Views 6,512 All
Imagine You're A Chef... [CREATIVE WRITING PROMPT]

Imagine You're A Chef... [CREATIVE WRITING PROMPT]

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Creative writing prompt: Imagine you're a chef. What type of restaurant would you open and why?
7 Views 17,897 All

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